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Statewide ILL Delivery Service: Pilot Program Begins January 2016
Chronicling America Announces Ten Millionth Page
VTLIB, NOFA Partner for Agricultural Literacy Week, November 16-22
VT Students Invited to Write Letters About Literature
2015-16 Book Award Discussion Sets Available
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award: Friends News, Logo Design Contest
VT Library Receives Curiosity Creates Grant
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topStatewide ILL Delivery Service:
Pilot Program Begins January 2016  
GMLC logo The Green Mountain Library Consortium (GMLC) and the Vermont Department of Libraries (VTLIB) are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot statewide cooperative delivery service of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) materials beginning in January 2016. A coordinated, statewide delivery system has many benefits for libraries and patrons, including saving staff time and money and the convenience of a set delivery schedule. Full article
Chronicling America Announces
Ten Millionth Page 
Chronicling America now has over ten million pages of freely available newspapers online. These pages are from over 1,900 newspaper titles in 38 states, territories, and Washington, D.C. This total includes over 260,000 pages from historical Vermont newspapers. Full article
VTLIB, NOFA Partner for
Agricultural Literacy Week, November 16-22 
NOFA-VT logo This fall, the Department of Libraries (VTLIB) is partnering with the Vermont chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) to highlight agricultural literacy in communities throughout the state. Agricultural Literacy Week, November 16-22, is an opportunity for focused educational events to encourage a robust understanding of agriculture in Vermont's schools and communities. It is a great week for Vermont libraries to home in on and cultivate fun and educational agriculture-focused events, book displays, farmer visits and more. Full article 
VT Students Invited to
Write Letters About Literature
Letters About Literature is an annual reading and writing contest for students in grades 4 - 12, sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. This year's prompt is "How did an author's work change your view of the world or yourself?" Students are asked to select a book, poem, or play and write a personal letter to the author (living or dead) explaining how reading that work changed them. State and national winners in three age categories will be selected. Full article
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2015-16 Book Award Discussion Sets Available 
The Department of Libraries (VTLIB) has multiple copies of most titles on the 2015-2016 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA) lists. The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award is Vermont's children's choice book award for grades 4 - 8, and GMBA is its counterpart for students in grades 9 - 12. Schools and libraries are encouraged to borrow these books for classes or other group discussions. The lists of available titles can be found on the Dorothy Canfield Fisher and GMBA pages of the VTLIB website. There is also a newly-updated master list of all discussion sets loaned by VTLIB. To reserve a book set, please contact Linda Willis-Pendo at [email protected] or 802-828-3267.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award:
Friends News, Logo Design Contest 
Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Friends of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award is a 501c3 organization created in 2002 to support the second oldest children's choice award program in the country. Each year, thousands of Vermont students in grades 4 - 8 read and vote for their favorite book from a list of 30 titles carefully selected by the Award Committee. Since 2003, the annual  Dorothy Canfield Fisher Conference has provided librarians and teachers throughout the state with inspiration, resources, and ideas for helping children engage with literature and reading. The Friends group collects funds for this conference and coordinates volunteer committees to help run the conference and the award ceremony. Full article
VT Library Receives Curiosity Creates Grant 
The Swanton Public Library has been awarded a $7500 Curiosity Creates grant from the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The ALSC is the world's largest organization dedicated to library services for children. Seventy-nine libraries nationwide were awarded Curiosity Creates grants to promote exploration and discovery for children ages six to fourteen. Full article

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The Green Mountain Library Consortium (GMLC) and the Vermont Department of Libraries (VTLIB) are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot statewide cooperative delivery service of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) materials beginning in January 2016. A coordinated, statewide delivery system has many benefits for libraries and patrons, including saving staff time and money and the convenience of a set delivery schedule.
 
Delivery will be made possible via a contract with a third party commercial courier service. Libraries who want to participate in the pilot program must commit to the first full pilot year (January 2016 - January 2017). Delivery service for this pilot year will be open only to public libraries in Vermont and to Vermont State College libraries.
 
For further details about the project, visit the GMLC website. There will be an informational meeting on Tuesday, November 10 at 1:00 pm at the Midstate Library Service Center in Berlin. Remote attendance will be made available through GoToMeeting webinar software. For more information, please contact Lisa von Kann, GMLC Administrative Coordinator, [email protected], or Mara Siegel, Head of VTLIB Interlibrary Loan, [email protected].
 

pageChronicling America Announces Ten Millionth Page 
Chronicling America now has over ten million pages of freely available newspapers online. These pages are from over 1,900 newspaper titles in 38 states, territories, and Washington, D.C. This total includes over 260,000 pages from historical Vermont newspapers.
 
Since its inception in 2005, the National Digital Newspaper Program has defined digital preservation standards for newspapers. Not only are these digital newspapers freely available and keyword searchable, they are preserved with high quality metadata. The Library of Congress archives the uncompressed digital master files (TIFFs) and the compressed access files. Because the master images are preserved, and each image is paired with high-quality metadata, the data will be open to software improvements and will not risk reverse compatibility issues.
 
The Library of Congress also archives a copy of each microfilm master negative that was used to create these ten million digital newspaper images. This means that, should some technological leap occur in scanning technology, these masters could potentially be re-scanned. Furthermore, archiving these microfilms means that the newspapers are preserved in multiple media.
 
No true standard for digital preservation of historical newspapers existed before the National Digital Newspaper Program. Now, with 38 states and territories following this standard, it has been proven to be a realistic, attainable benchmark.
 
So, this month we celebrate not just the availability of 10 million historical newspaper pages, but the preservation of ten million digital images of newspaper pages, and a new era for digital preservation. This is not only a significant milestone for the National Digital Newspaper Program, but a milestone for high quality digital preservation.


NOFAVTLIB, NOFA Partner for Agricultural Literacy Week, November 16-22 
This fall, the Department of Libraries (VTLIB) is partnering with the Vermont chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) to highlight agricultural literacy in communities throughout the state. Agricultural Literacy Week, November 16-22, is an opportunity for focused educational events to encourage a robust understanding of agriculture in Vermont's schools and communities. It is a great week for Vermont libraries to home in on and cultivate fun and educational agriculture-focused events, book displays, farmer visits and more.
 
NOFA Vermont Farm to Community Mentors facilitate the organization of local events at schools, libraries, farms, and other community centers. To get involved contact your local Farm to Community Mentor:
  • Bennington & Rutland: Scout Proft,
    2087 Dorset Hill Rd, East Dorset, VT 05253, 802-362-2290
  • Windham: Lisa Holderness,
    4075 Hinesburg Rd, Guilford, VT 05301, 802-254-3540
    Email 
    Lisa Holderness 
  • Windsor: Amy Richardson,
    87 Hartland Hill Rd, Woodstock, VT 05091, 802-436-7017
    Email 
    Amy Richardson 
  • Lamoille & South Orleans: Selina Rooney,
    222 Tine McKee Rd, Morrisville, VT 05661, 802-888-8440
    Email 
    Selina Rooney 
  • Orleans & Caledonia: Pam Kennedy,
    64 Moses Lane, Westmore, VT 05860, 802-525-9725
    Email 
    Pam Kennedy 
  • Orange & Washington: Misse Axelrod, The Barn Yard
    PO Box 1324, Roxbury, VT 05669, 802-485-7788
    Email
    Misse Axelrod
  • Franklin & Grand Isle: Virginia Holiman,
    PO Box 341, Highgate, VT 05459, 802-868-2295
    Email 
    Virginia Holiman 
  • Central & North Chittenden: John Connell,
    PO Box 148, Underhill Ctr., VT 05490, 802-899-2375
    Email 
    John Connell 
  • Addison & South Chittenden: Cheryl Mitchell, 
    164 Mitchell Drive, Vergennes, VT 05491, 802-989-8141
    Email 
    Cheryl Mitchell 
  • Statewide Projects: Abbie Nelson,
    Mentor Coordinator, NOFA-VT, 802-434-4122
    Email 
    Abbie Nelson 

LALVT Students Invited to Write Letters About Literature 
Letters About Literature is an annual reading and writing contest for students in grades 4 - 12, sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. This year's prompt is "How did an author's work change your view of the world or yourself?" Students are asked to select a book, poem, or play and write a personal letter to the author (living or dead) explaining how reading that work changed them. State and national winners in three age categories will be selected.
 
Vermont winners will receive a certificate signed by the governor and cash prizes. The first place winner in each category will advance to the national level. A downloadable entry form and guidelines are available on the Department of Libraries website and from the Library of Congress. Entries will be accepted beginning November 2.
 
The 23rd annual writing contest for young readers is made possible by a generous grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, with additional support from gifts to the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, which promotes the contest through its affiliate Centers for the Book, state libraries and other organizations.


FODCFDorothy Canfield Fisher Award: Friends News, Logo Design Contest
The Friends of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award is a 501c3 organization created in 2002 to support the second oldest children's choice award program in the country. Each year, thousands of Vermont students in grades 4 - 8 read and vote for their favorite book from a list of 30 titles carefully selected by the Award Committee. Since 2003, the annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Conference has provided librarians and teachers throughout the state with inspiration, resources, and ideas for helping children engage with literature and reading. The Friends group collects funds for this conference and coordinates volunteer committees to help run the conference and the award ceremony.
 
The Friends recently met in Stowe to begin planning for the 2015-16 award year. The newly elected officers of the Friends are:
 
Julie Pickett, President
Cheryl Sloan, Vice President
Megan Sutton, Treasurer
Annie Brabazon, Secretary
 
Anyone interested in promoting children's literacy may become a member of the Friends. One way to support the Friends of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award is by making an annual donation. This donation will help keep the conference, and the award program, going strong for years to come. Other ways to participate are to help out at the conference, help sell newly created book bags and t-shirts at your school or library, or assist with other jobs that may arise.
 
Learn more about the Friends or become a member at https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofdorothycanfieldfisher/. This new website was generously created by Jennifer Johnson. It is still a work in progress!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Logo Design Contest
 
It's time for a logo re-design! The Friends of Dorothy Canfield Fisher are pleased to announce the 2015/16 Logo Contest. Vermont students in grades 4 - 8 are invited to design new graphics for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award.
 
There are two contests. The first is the full letterhead logo with the full name of the book award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award.  The second is the fun spine label for libraries to use on books: Dorothy's List. An information sheet with contest guidelines and suggested templates can be downloaded from the Department of Libraries website.
 
The winning artists will be featured on VPR and will be recognized at the annual award ceremony in the spring. Their artwork will be used on the website, official program materials, and social media. The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2015. 
 

grantVT Library Receives Curiosity Creates Grant 
The Swanton Public Library has been awarded a $7500 Curiosity Creates grant from the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The ALSC is the world's largest organization dedicated to library services for children. Seventy-nine libraries nationwide were awarded Curiosity Creates grants to promote exploration and discovery for children ages six to fourteen.
 
The Swanton Library's proposal -- written by Rebecca Rupp, Chair of the Swanton Library Board of Trustees, with the support of Library Director Michelle Beaulieu -- involves designing themed investigation centers for independent exploration and providing a wide range of creativity-promoting programs and workshops for children. Topics to be covered include reader's theater, art journaling, recycled art, hands-on science, game design, creative writing, and more. Upcoming program schedules will be posted online at www.swantonlibrary.org.
 
A list of all Curiosity Creates grant recipients can be found on the ALSC website. These grants were made possible by a donation of $800,000 to the ALSC by the Walt Disney Company.
 


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